Venture-Agent, Massachusetts—Boston Metro
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The Wayang racial ability, in particular, looks very challenging to role play.Not any more difficult than a Halfling with a 30 foot base speed, or a Half-orc with oversized tusks.
I feel like Wayang racial abilities leads to them being one of the most sinister races in Pathfinder. Nothing says more suspect than getting advice from eldritch abominations and having an affinity for an energy type associated with death. It doesn't help that the have no mythological underpinning to them.
Venture-Captain, Minnesota
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Second death on that guy, IIRC.He didn't have enough prestige for a raise, and lost the character permanently. He took it as part of the character's short and tragic arc.Had he spent too much prestige after acheiving 20 Fame? Because the Beginner Box Bash boon allows a free raise dead.
Given that he told no one about his negative energy affinity, I am not surprised. I really would want my teammates to be more communicative than that. If I were playing the cleric, I would have been devastated to have a friend fall to my channel. It would have scarred me. This is not something to do to your team!
It is not just your own PC that you must think about. Think about how you should not let your team down due to lack of information. That can be done by VCs to us, but should never happen between players!
Explore. Cooperate. Report!
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Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden
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I don't think the PVP policy is really that difficult to use.under normal circumstances, no. But pathfinders are known for nothing if not unusual corner cases.
How do you resolve Schrodinger's ninja ?
-the wizard can't throw a fireball anywhere.
-the wizard can't throw a fireball there.. there.. or there.. no, not there either, okay, there's fine. (metagaming them having the location of schrodingers ninja): maybe all pathfinders know to call out "attack pattern delta 7" before going invisible.
-Lament the one ability the rogue has that the ninja doesn't and fire away!
Well, option #1 and #3 is how we usually run it.
"I want to throw a fireball there. OOC I can see you're there, but IC I don't. Should I throw it?"
"Well, I went there without agreeing on some sort of code so that I could tell you in which direction I was moving, that was pretty stupid of me. Fire away." Or: "Erm. Ooops. Please don't kill me with your awesome fireball. I'll try to coordinate better with you next time."
Either way, our blasters tend to put just a little bit more effort into getting See Invisibility and a Goz Mask than most, because these are preventable problems.
Other solutions for blasters: Message cantrip, pseudodragon/bat familiar with blindsense, discussing strategy beforehand with the party...
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My second pfs game I was playing withe current VL that had a DHampir. He made abig deal to let everyone know he had a high disguise and appeared human. I did not realize what this meant, and had a character that would take him for his word he is a human. So I did not worry about it.
He jumps a pit and gets ganked by a demon hiding and starts bleeding out. I bravely jump across and make a valiant effort to drop a CLW potion down his throat to try and save him. Oops. Although he made his save and did not die outright.
Even the player sullenly agreed this should have happened. it was pretty interesting when everyone started reacting when I attempted to save him.
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Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden
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Well, the spring-attacking rogue can just learn to get back out of the blast radius. The 5ft-stepping rogue could try to step sideways in such a way that the wizard has a decent blast radius - teamwork is a team effort. And it's good to have a talk about these things at the beginning of the session.
Also, the Message cantrip is very handy.
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Work it out between the players. it has to be targeted to hurt undead. A channel burst can either be to heal the living or hurt the dead, so healing party members with a channel won't hurt him.
First, I want to say that I'm psyched that I get another opportunity to address one of my heros, even if it appears I disagree. Really, it's just that I'm so very frustrated because of what I perceive as ambiguities in another thread that 'everyone' else seemed to completely understand.
This thread about Dhamphir and NEA raised the question about NEA and it was my understanding that "the devs" decided that we were supposed to effectively ignore the fact that "dhampir are alive" and treat them as dead for ALL purposes.
I originally just assumed that dhampir were always treated as undead. THEN the coherent arguments raised by (i think) Kitsune Knight swayed my opinion and I became enamored with the complexities and newfound (potential) power of my dhampir boon... and then it was "clarified" by the devs and I appear to be the only one that was further confused.
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This thread about Dhamphir and NEA raised the question about NEA and it was my understanding that "the devs" decided that we were supposed to effectively ignore the fact that "dhampir are alive" and treat them as dead for ALL purposes.
Going with the basic "you're effectively an undead for channel energies and healing spells" rather than a questionable reading and rules lawyering of rules minutia
The question was answered definitively on the not rules lawery side